I was asked today in the website "Fr Stefan I have meet you a couple of times? You also seems like a person of faith. How can I grow in Faith?' This is a big question. First of...
How do grow in Faith
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Hospital ministry
As the Diocese kicks off the Bishop’s Lenten Appeal (BLA), please consider supporting our wonderful seminarians and all the good offerings that the Diocese provides, including...
Art of dying
I just finished reading a book ‘The Art of Dying’ A 13th c book on the art of dying. Scripture says call no man happy till his end death. Life is either a comedy or a tragedy...
Hospital Charity
Hospital and charity…The Inn in the Gospel is an image of a hospital.. Pope Francis the Church is a field Hospital.. It was the Catholic Church that first gave us Hospitals....
Art of dying well
Art of dying well..Going Home..Mother Theresa said ‘Death is something beautiful: it means going home.’ And from Jim Towey book ‘To Love and be Loved.’ He writes ‘Hanging on the...
Being a hospital Chaplin is like being a missionary
When I go into the hospital. I feel like I am going into a foreign county. Hospital are places of grace. At times I feel like I am on a battle field, giving Last Rites to 3...
Are funerals about the living
Monica said to St Augustine ‘I don’t care where you put this body of mine but don’t forget me at the altar of God.’ We often hear funerals are about the living not the dead. When...
Pain.. thought
A thought that struck me… a modern middle class person experiences less physical pain than a king 300, 500 a 1000 years ago.. the average middle class person has a level of...
Dream of man in the hospital
A dream!! Yesterday I was asked to go to a room.. a man of the Baptist faith.. he had a dream.. I was told before I went in the dream ‘a nun gave him Communion’ So in the room...
Scapular story
St Therese Little Flower, Scapular!!! Yesterday 2 people came to Mass at the hospital..asked me to go visit 2 people, and give the sacraments.. which I did.. While I left second...